Sun May 12 2002 00:09:
Back from the party. It was fun. I played Devil Bunny Needs A
Ham with Zack. Other stuff ensued which I need to find URLs so
that I can properly link my description of it (a peculiar hypertextual
disease: linker's block), and I'm too tired to find those URLs. I
will mention that I went to Berkeley Bowl and bowled a couple frames.
No, just kidding. Berkeley Bowl is a supermarket and they sell a line
of very tasty soups under the "Turtle Island" brand. When I say these
are tasty soups I am quite serious. This has nothing to do with
the party, but before I went to the party I stopped to get some
ginger beer (it turns out that everyone who brought any drink at all brought ginger beer; is it
the new hip drink among teetotaling nerds?) and I also bought 6
boxes of the delicious soup. Dystopian Soup Slogan: "So good, it's thoughtcrime!"

The soup's gimmick is that it comes with a goofy little bottle
of Tabasco which you can use to spice up the soup. It's really good
with Tabasco (even though Daniel Rall hates Tabasco, and the Spice Weasel I got for Kevin that we use on our burritos is convincing me of the evils of Tabasco), but I haven't tried it with my generic Louisiana pepper sauce;
will keep informed.

I got sidetracked again. What I meant to do was thank Shweta for
hosting the party, and Zack for providing the venue, and also for providing
the thing that I will talk about that I'm too tired and rambling to
find the link for, and as such I will do it later today after I wake
up from the sleep that will be mine once I run my nightly dental
hygeine/yoga gauntlet.